Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Motocamping, Ten Things I Learned

Going solo motocamping on the Sunday night opened my eyes to a few things. Firstly it's hard to film everything to keep things interesting. I had to remember to stop and film, I didn't know where the best spots to film were so I probably too way too much footage of boring parts of the trip.
Secondly, charge the batteries as often as possible. There were a number of times where I could have done some talking but either the camera was dead or my phone was almost dead so I couldn't record the audio to it. In the end I didn't do any audio at all and will most likely just end up using the footage that I got for the intro video and maybe for B roll stuff in the future if needed. 
Third thing was that it still gets dark really early in September, I really should wait until daylight savings starts before I try and so this again. I ended up having dinner at 5:30pm as I wanted light to try and film it by and not just use the little camp light that I have.
Fourth, no one wants to watch an overweight middle age man heat and then eat a can of chilli, it wasn't a good look so that won't be going into the video.
Fifth, it was really cold, They said it was only going to get down to something like 6°C but it got down to 4°C on early Sunday morning. Early Monday morning wasn't as cold (9°C) but it was still cold to me, my feet froze, the rest of me was ok but I kept waking up because it was cold. I did forget to take a beanie which usually help to keep my feet warm but my sleeping bag has a hood that I had on tight and if it did work then I would have hate to have tried to sleep without it.
Sixth, 3 hours from home is too far for this video shooting business to work on a regular basis, 2 hours maximum otherwise I'm spending too long just riding and not even taking any footage.
Seventh, 2 nights will be tough, yes I did three nights but it would have been basically a 2 night trip as I stayed in the one place and didn't film much on the first day at the campsite.
Eighth, I didn't like filming at the campsite when there were people everywhere and I certainly won't be talking to the camera in the campsites, I think that I'll do more time lapses and things like that in the camp grounds. 
Ninth, I need a better plan and need to stick to my plans. I forgot to do somethings and didn't feel like stopping to do others. I need to put the filming first on these trips and realise that if I want to make these good, then my actual enjoyment needs to come second.
Ten, I need to do more of it to get better at it.

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